Re: findutils not actively maintained
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 09:04:42PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 04:41:41PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> >> Can someone take a look at some of them, especially the exclusion requests
> >> for updatedb and consider posting a few NMUs?
>
> > Uploaded into http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/findutils/
> > I'll try to contact Kevin and if I don't hear back from him I'll
> > upload to incoming in about a week.
>
> > findutils (4.1.7-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
>
> > * Non-Maintainer upload.
> [Impressive list of fixed bugs]
> > * Closes: #113139: updatedb: please remove "auto" from PRUNEFS
> > Closes: #129121: I don't believe fstype AUTO should be excluded in
> > updatedb.conf
> > Closes: #132430: auto in PRUNEFS in /etc/updatedb.conf has unexpected
> > sideeffect!
> > Closes: #144649: the updatedb cron script does not work on root
> > filesystem type auto
> > Closes: #119603: locate should index filetype (auto) [ext3fs]
> [...]
>
> How did you go about this? This is a bug in mount. Imho there is
> nothing to do in find, because both indexing and not indexing auto can
> be wrong, and not indexing it is the better safe default.
> cu andreas
Yes, you're right, but this is a good thing until mount is fixed.
Has a bug been filed on mount?
Hmm, does anyone else think a list of acceptable filesystems would be better
than listing all of the possible ones that shouldn't be indexed? (of course
that doesn't fix the mount bug...)
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